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New York TimesPARIS — A Web-based movement is hoping the words of a former French soccer star are enough to drive a protest against bank bailouts and bonuses, and to hurt financial institutions where it counts: in their deposits.
Two months ago, the former French soccer star Eric Cantona called for a bloodless “revolution” against banks with a plan to do just that. Since then politicians have frowned and commentators have discussed whether the idea has merit.
On Tuesday, it will become clear whether bank customers are angry enough to act. That is the day depositors in France and beyond have been asked to withdraw their money in protest. While banking chiefs will be watching their tills, most doubt any protest will be widespread.
Mr. Cantona called for the bank protest in an interview with the newspaper Presse Océan in Nantes in October, around the time of strikes and demonstrations in France against the overhaul of the pension system by the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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